Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

Post by essive » Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 10:10 PM UTC

zaat wrote: post #60

Consider the lobster - David f. Wallace (good) Brief Interview with Hideous Men - David f Wallace (better) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep -Philip K. Dick (better than I expected) A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick (even better) The Goal, It's Not Luck, Critical Chain - Goldratt (OK, easy read) The Phoenix Project - (bad prose, not inspired) Grimus - Rushdie - (Amazing) Autobiography of Mark Twain ( oscillating be…

Post by henrik_w » Thu, Dec 20, 2018, 3:48 PM UTC

cyberjunkie wrote: post #14

For someone who didn't read at all for the longest and started a couple of years back, I'm glad I read 20 books this year. Here are the few that stuck with me - Bad Blood (John Carreyrou) - Story of Theranos, its founders and the conception of terrible ideas. Great record of their actions based on subjective ethics and morals, how they can lead you to going insane. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't…

Post by iamkoby » Sun, Dec 23, 2018, 10:59 AM UTC

bluejay2 wrote: post #53

1. The Feast of the Goat by Vargas Llosa - fast paced, fictionalized account of the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic 2. 100 years of solitude - currently 70% through but the writing and story is superb. 3. Death in the Andes — another Vargas Llosa book. Not as good as Feast of the Goat in my opinion, but gives a good idea of the situation in Peru in the 1980s during the Shining Path insurrec…

Post by pps » Tue, Dec 25, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

bun_at_work wrote: post #24

aryamaan wrote: post #13

The Paypal Wars (4/5): Gives insight about the company from it's beginning to IPO. Might have suffered from survivalshi[ bias and is kinda anti-Musk. The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight (4/5): Tells lots of things about biological clocks. Action items to have better sleep, mood and hunger. Alan Carr- Easy way to quit smoking (5/5): Helped me to…

I want to comment on Alan Carr's Easy Way book. This book is the reason I managed to stick to quitting. I haven't smoked in 3.5 years because of that book, after nearly 15 years. The argument he makes is better than the common ones you hear (it's bad for your health, it costs money, it smells bad), which is nice. As he mentions, smokers know all those things, and that information isn't helpful. Instead he points out…